Freezing foods is quite convenient for most of the people as they can plan their meals ahead of time. Freezers are also great as they will help you avoid often visits to the grocery stores but still you have food at home which is available every time you want to prepare something.

Although freezing food is quite helpful it can reduce the quality of food, especially when you refreeze meat which can lose its taste and freshness. So certain foods you should never put back in the freezer after you take them out.

Here are foods which you should never refreeze:

Ice Cream: Surprise! Many people refreeze ice cream, but this is an extremely bad idea. Ice cream is a dairy product and it can spoil very fast once you take it out of the freezer. Also it will change its flavor and texture: so throw it in the trash.

Fruit Juice: Never refreeze fruit juices, especially concentrates. They will lose their quality

Smoothies: It is best to drink smoothies immediately after you prepare them. Most of the smoothies are made with milk, so thawing them is not a good idea as they become lumpy.

Raw Meats: Never refreeze meats. They change their color and become smelly, which means that they are no longer safe to eat. This also goes for seafood and poultry.

Cooked Meats: Aside from raw meats, you should also avoid refreezing previously cooked meats because proteins easily go bad after thawing them for the second time. You definitely don’t want to consume bad meat.

Salad Greens: Salads are tastier with crispy greens, but you won’t achieve the same taste with greens from the freezer. For example, if you want to use lettuce, avoid refreezing this vegetable as it will become flavorless, limp and soft.

But if you must refreeze your food then at least make sure there are still ice crystals. Although not all of the food should be put in the freezer like turkey for example. Never refreeze turkey even if it has ice crystals. This is because big food can be still warm inside so it is not safe to consume it again. If you have to refreeze raw meat, refreeze it while it is still cold.

The snack foods which are produced for children contain very harmful compounds from cancer causing artificial colors to petroleum products! Just to be clear, petroleum is the same ingredient used to make up oil and gas. Commonly used food dyes as Red 40 and Yellow 5 are made of petroleum and can be linked with some serious health conditions.

Because these substances are so toxic, the British government and European Union have banned the use of dyes all over Europe:

Pop tarts

Pop tarts are toaster pastries and were produced in 1964. The Frosted Strawberry flavor contains dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup and sugar! All these belong to the group of harmful sugar. But there are also other harmful ingredients as TBHQ which is derived from petroleum and is related to butane which is partially hydrogenated soybean oil. This oil is proven to cause cellular dysfunction.

Fruit snacks

You can find them in various fruit flavors and characters and they are hard to resist. But they are mostly made of colors and artificial additives. Among them is Red 3 which is widely used for food coloring. It is also known as E127 or Erythrosine, a petroleum product.

M&M’s

These fun chocolate candies are tasty and melt in your mouth but they are made of artificial colors which are very harmful when ingested. They also contain: Blue #2(contains petroleum and causes brain tumors in lab mice, abnormal cell development and hyperactivity in children), Blue #1 (linked with malignant tumors), Red #40 (Damages DNA), Yellow #6 ( causes cancer) and Yellow #5. All of this colors as mentioned above are made of petroleum and can trigger allergic reaction, cancer and hyperactivity.

Cheetos.

Cheetos are orange, cheesy snacks. The artificial color responsible for the “cheese” color is made from Yellow 6, which we know is derived from petroleum. And the “cheese” flavoring is due to the methyl benzoate and ethyl methylphenidate.

Teddy grams

These candies are firstly produced in 1988 and can be found in 5 different flavors. Although these cute teddy bears are as small as the small finger, they are full with dreaded TBHQ. TBHQ can be toxic and can cause ringing in the ear, nausea, delirium, collapse and vomiting. It is proven to cause stomach cancer in lab rats, fragment DNA and cause damage to humane lung and umbilical cells. It can also cause restlessness, intensify the symptoms of ADHD and anxiety in children.